BFK Newsletter 1

Submitted by Anonymous on July 2010

BfK Newsletter

BFK

July, 2010

Dear Books for Keeps reader

This is an exciting time for Books for Keeps. Today we publish our very first online edition of the magazine. To read Books for Keeps No. 183 simply click on the front
cover.

Alongside our regular features you’ll find a new series: in the first ‘BfK Basics’ Jake Hope looks at the Children’s Library. Plus we celebrate 25 years of Beverley Naidoo’s now classic Journey to Jo’burg.

For those who prefer the traditional magazine format to reading online, click on the link to our digital edition: read and turn the pages onscreen or download and print it to read away from your computer.

JULY'S AUTHORGRAPH RICK RIORDAN

"I have a lot of sympathy with reluctant readers as I was one and my son is one."
Julia Eccleshare interviews best-selling author Rick Riordan..

Windows into Illustration

"I always feel a little scared of a very clean and white piece of paper - I might make a mistake and muck it up. So I scribble or paint or stick something on it so the paper isn’t
quite so new."
Leigh Hodgkinson describes her “higgledy piggledy way of working” in ‘Windows into Illustration’.

WINNERS OF THE 2010 CILIP KATE GREENAWAY AND CARNEGIE MEDALS

Congratulations to Freya Blackwood and Neil Gaiman. winners of the most prestigious UK children's books awards. Blackwood won the 2010 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for
Goodnight, Hopper written by Margaret Wild (Scholastic). Gaiman won the 2010 CILIP Carnegie Medal for The Graveyard Book (Bloomsbury).

Read Julia Eccleshare’s exclusive Books for Keeps interview with Freya Blackwood.

‘Talking Pictures’

Books for Keeps editor Rosemary Stones chaired a discussion between illustrators Mini Grey, Sue Hendra, Nadia Shireen and Christopher Wormell at the first ever Random House Books for Keeps live event ‘Talking Pictures’ earlier this week.

Happy Birthday Katie! It’s 21 years since James Mayhew created his first Katie book.

"Mayhew’s series has been much imitated but what distinguishes these books is the painterly sensitivity with which the transition from painting to narrative backdrop is handled. The formula for Katie’s entry into the world of each painting is never forced and Mayhew manages to maintain a balance between pastiche and personal visual language through a genuine empathy with the formal qualities of the paintings.
Martin Salisbury.

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